JoshuaDavid

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Comment · 1 month ago
You're talking about the HuggingFace incident? It's notable that the agents (somewhat justifiably) thought that their evaluation had an LLM grader which would look for evidence that they had cheated. And it was specifically that grader they were trying to his evidence of cheating from, not humans more generally.

Honestly that part was more surprising to me than anything else, how narrow the compulsion to cheat was: they didn't learn "cheat in general" they learned "think about the grader in great detail and chat exactly as much and exactly in the ways that actually result in a higher score".

Comment · 1 month ago
"CONERTHTO" is just "CONVERTHTO" but missing a letter, no?
Comment · 1 month ago
Why should they care if their actions are discovered by humans? What are the humans going to do, discard their multi-million-dollar training run? Even if they do that, the amount of RL pressure is tiny relative to what happens inside an RL run.
Comment · 3 months ago
Gasoline + LOX beats TNT on energy density per unit mass and per unit volume, no? There's a reason that kerosene+h2o2 is a classic rocket fuel, and TNT is not.
Comment · 6 months ago
You can treat the LLM's answers ass hypotheses about why it did what it did, and test those hypotheses. The hypotheses the LLM comes up with might be better than the ones you come up with, because the LLM has seen a lot more text than you have, and particularly has seen a lot more of its own outputs than you have (e.g. from training to use other instances of itself as subagents).
Comment · 6 months ago
I think if you're vibe coding to the extent that you don't even know the shapes of data your system works with (e.g. the schema if you use a database) you might be outsourcing a bit too much of your thinking.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Ideally it is common knowledge that the onion service exists, and then people can go look at the onion service and update Wikipedia based on what they see there.
Comment · 6 months ago
Would be fairly easy for them to offer an onion service on which they publish the current list of domains, as one option among many, many options for distributing small strings on the internet in an uncensorable way.
Comment · 6 months ago
Did that happen to a lot of companies during the log4shell fiasco? I'm sure some companies had their permissions misconfigured in a way such that a malicious actor who could execute code on their servers could also drop their database and delete their backups.
Comment · 7 months ago
Claude Code's main advantage is that it's the only TOS-compliant way to access subscription Claude tokens, which cost about 10% as much as pay-as-you-go Claude API tokens.
Comment · 7 months ago
What specific thing(s) are you worried that USD will take a dive relative to?

Then once you have an answer to that question, that might point you towards what you want to be long.

Comment · 7 months ago
Pinning the tag will not save you - the tags were force-pushed. The cooldown probably did save you but you should check for the indicators of compromise listed on the security advisory page.
Comment · 7 months ago
Noted and sent. Thanks for all your hard work.
Comment · 7 months ago
FWIW I think the 30u30 to fraud pipeline is overstated. There are 600 people on the American Forbes 30u30 list every year (it's "30 under 30 each year in each of 20 categories"), with 20ish notable instances of fraud, so maybe a quarter percent of the people on the 30u30 list will later become famous for fraud.

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